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Those extra pins are for analogue signals. DVI-I standard allows for the digital pins (the one's you've got) or a bunch of analogue pins (the ones you don't) which would send normal analogue RGB as a normal VGA plug would.

As for why the DVI issues - God knows, that Panasonic board just ain't right! (yet on the projectors they've been fine for generations lol!)

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The 'blotchy blacks' you're seeing are what's known as 'Macroblocking'. It's the fault of the Faroudja/DCDi (FLI2310) chip that's in your Denon player, (and in a whole heap of other players).

This chipset suffers from this very issue you're describing - no remedy for it unfortunately. Panasonic plasmas are the absolute worst companion to a player with this chipset, as they emphasise the macroblocking issue severely. As you say, on bright scenes, the picture's great, but on dark ones, you'll see the effect.

Your best bet is firstly to calibrate your screen (if you can't get it ISF'ed) using DVE or even a THX optimizer disc, then dial down the contrast and/or brightness one or two notches lower. Unfortunately, this will result in a bit of black crush (i.e. less greyscale/shadow detail), but it should make the blotchiness more bearable. High contrast is not your friend when it comes to macroblocking, especially on Panny plasmas.

BTW, have you tried a PAL disc on the DVI connection (at 576p)? I ask because I can't get this to work on my Denon/6-series combo, and I'm not the only one. If you can't, don't worry, it's not a fault, the DVI board is just fussy like that. If you can, however, that would raise some questions for me.....

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i have the same problem with my denon 1910 and dvi input, i too have to cycle round the inputs to get it to work, most annoying as u pay alot of money for these terminal boards the last thing u want is to be on ure hands and knees pressing a little button after spending so much money oh and i also spent alot of money on a wireworld dvi cable and it makes no difference..